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CRA's mission is to provide amateur repeater services throughout the front range of Colorado, with a focus on reliability, complete coverage, and new technology. The efforts of the CRA shall reflect the needs and desires of its subscribers with respect to coverage, bands, and features provided. The CRA shall promote amateur radio, public safety, and new technology in the interests of all amateur radio operators.

[Update 8/21/2018, WA1JHK] We recently received several reports that the VHF Echolink node, W0CRA-R, was not working properly on incoming calls. We have resolved this issue. Incoming calls are once again working. Note that outgoing calls are still not working. Investigation continues...

Some of you may have noticed that 145.160 on Cheyenne Mountain was off the air on Friday 7/6/2018. It went down ~2 am Friday. It was repaired this afternoon (Saturday 7/7/2018) and is back on and linked.

Barry N0KV and Jim WD0E went to the clubs Westcreek site yesterday to address audio issues on 448.425. They were able to access the site, which is normally snowed out most of the winter, and substantially improve the audio quality on 448.425.

There is now a Colorado Repeater Association group on Facebook. Join the group and be notified when the club posts news you should know like system status changes. Click the link in the menu on the main web page or search for w0cra.

Because of the Conifer site move, 147.225 is now at Westcreek and its coverage is different than when it was located on Conifer Mountain. All nets are again available on the CRA VHF Link System of 145.460, 145.160, and 147.225.

The new CRA repeater site is called Westcreek. It is located southwest of Larkspur at 9200 feet elevation. A team of 11 hams representing the CRA, ARESDEC, and RMHam traveled to the site on Saturday 11/11/2017 to install racks, run cable, install conduit and AC outlets, install lightning protection, mount antennas and feedlines on the tower, install a UHF multicoupler/combiner and make low loss jumpers.

After 35 years, the CRA is moving from its Conifer repeater site. Our sincere thanks to the Elk Creek Fire District for hosting us all these years while we have provided support to the community during fires, floods, blizzards, severe summer storms and other times of community need.

The upgraded link hardware for 145.460 to link it to 147.225 and 145.160 is complete and has been installed at the club's Eldorado Mountain site. The link is now operational. The Eldorado Mountain repeater site with 145.460 and 447.975 provides excellent coverage of Boulder, Denver metro, and areas to the northeast.